- Daesan Literary Award 2001 · Winner
The Guest
손님 · Sonnim
Hwang Sok-yong (황석영, born 1943)
Translated by Kyung-Ja Chun, Maya West
English editions
In EnglishThe Guest
Seven Stories Press · United States · 7 October 2008 · Paperback · 240 pages
The Guest
Seven Stories Press · United States · 1 November 2005 · Hardcover · 240 pages
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Framed by the twelve parts of a Hwanghae shaman ritual held to console the dead, the novel returns to the Sincheon killings of 1950. Its people are caught between two creeds that reached Korea from outside, Christianity and Marxism, and their grudges wait to be laid to rest. The title is a folk name for smallpox, and for whatever is kept outside as a stranger.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 264 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- North Korea, 1950
- First published
- 2001 by Changbi
- Author's age
- 58 when first published
- ISBN
9788936433413 (original)
9781583226933 (Seven Stories Press, United States)
9781583227510 (Seven Stories Press, United States)
- More
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